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2025 IBPA Book Award, Silver Winner for the disabled communities category.
2025 Feathered Quill Book Award Winner for the Inspirational category.
2024 IAN Book of the Year Award, Grand Prize Non-Fiction Books of the Year, Second Place.
BookLife’s Best of 2024, Memoir.
Charlene Pell wears her scars like badges of honor-she has never hidden them.
Thirty years ago, on a sunny afternoon, Charlene was on a private flight to Cat Island, Bahamas, when the unthinkable happened: the plane, piloted by her fiancé, experienced a mechanical problem and crashed in a fiery inferno. When Charlene awoke, she discovered that 64 percent of her body had been burned, and her fiancé had died.
In This Altered Body is the compelling story of Charlene’s physical and emotional odyssey to reclaim her life and identity after surviving a tragedy that left her facially disfigured and grieving. As Charlene begins the long, painful process of recovery, she fears she will never be loved again, because her outward beauty has been destroyed and our society, obsessed with flawless skin and superficial beauty, stigmatizes disfigurement. But through dogged determination, Charlene overcomes difficult obstacles both physical and emotional-and learns from the experiences of other burn survivors to never write off her dreams and to be open to possibilities . . . including love. Brimming with insight from a life of perseverance, In This Altered Body is a piercing memoir about tragic loss and the resilience of the human spirit.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Charlene Pell
Published: 06/11/2024
Publisher: Facing Forward Books
ISBN: 9798990034006
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 0.55″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W
About the Author
Pell, Charlene: – Award-winning Charlene Pell is the founder of Facing Forward, a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals with facial or physical differences cope with staring and communicate confidently. Thirty years ago, Pell survived a plane crash that burned her body, severely injuring her face and hands. As a result of her disfigurement and the lack of resources available to her during her recovery, Pell created programs to help herself and others. Her work has been published in Skin, Psychology Today, the American Burn Association’s Journal of Burn Care & Research, and other periodicals. Pell holds a master’s degree in communications from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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